Skidmarks Indicate Speed, Traffic Inspector Says
Describing tlie course a car took after it apparently got out of control, Mr. C. Varcoe, Transport Department inspector, said in the Stratford court yesterday that it appeared to him to be a bad case of speeding. The case was one m which Gordon Henry James Harris, New Plymouth, was charged with drivmg without due care and attention. The offence was alleged to have occurred near Midhirst on May 8. Messrs. W. Liddell and H. C. North, justices of the peace, fined Harris £2 10s (costs 10s). The car apparently got out of control after passing a two-way bridge, the inspector said. A skid on the left-hand side measured 23 feet, another was 35 feet long. Marks indicated that the car swerved across the road and scored a bank for 20 feet. ran with the wheels in a deep watertable for 34 feet more, came out and skidded 28 feet. The inspector added that he had received several complaints about Harris.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1942, Page 4
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